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A 'Sleazy' Attack

Updated Feb. 18, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

Judges around the country are starting to kick out of their courtrooms bogus experts who claim, in contravention of all peer-reviewed studies, that breast implants cause connective tissue disease. Not liking the message, the plaintiffs' lawyers and their press flacks have responded by attacking the messengers. A top target of their ire has been Robert Jones, a federal judge in Oregon who dealt a big blow to the plaintiffs' claims last December.